Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers (Sample Report Title: Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract.), Table [1] : " Population Abstract".

List for top level	Wirral	List for Cheshire AncC

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Wirral Hundred Total	63,320	3,296	3,544	66	253	1,501	1,080	963	9,537	9,563	19,100	4,570	399	313	1,431	3	1,201	279	687	158	99	40	1,409
Backford AP/CP/Tn	3,320	83	86	0	0	70	6	10	247	240	487	107	22	3	56	0	12	9	0	1	4	0	39
Chester St Mary on the Hill AP/CP	3,020	728	735	0	47	285	321	129	1,768	1,777	3,545	906	50	10	360	0	320	12	73	68	13	9	117
Chester St Oswald AP/CP	5,810	1,011	1,199	26	90	148	739	312	2,808	3,233	6,041	1,372	29	31	197	2	743	65	176	101	28	3	334
Bromborough CP/AP	2,250	81	82	0	3	58	14	10	232	217	449	123	15	11	55	0	23	2	12	2	3	1	17
Burton AP/CP	2,920	78	81	1	0	63	13	5	240	218	458	115	21	0	52	0	16	3	13	8	2	1	29
Eastham CP/AP	7,170	282	293	3	7	183	56	54	811	769	1,580	425	34	17	192	0	107	16	43	11	5	3	92
Chester Holy Trinity Tn/CP/AP	1,170	599	749	0	52	40	362	347	1,427	1,871	3,298	735	5	0	47	0	337	91	149	60	46	18	238
Neston AP	10,260	678	727	5	34	202	287	238	1,641	1,877	3,518	802	45	35	229	0	221	49	142	54	27	5	301
Shotwick CP/AP	3,560	138	142	0	0	105	31	6	426	373	799	219	49	39	93	0	34	2	0	0	2	5	42
Shotwick Park ExP/CP	710	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	13	5	18	4	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Stanlow CP/ExP	230	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	6	13	4	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Stoke AP/CP	2,920	70	73	0	4	58	6	9	199	199	398	104	12	10	67	0	10	2	2	1	0	0	34
Bebington CP/AP	5,250	414	421	11	23	129	171	121	1,081	1,112	2,193	495	44	25	98	0	189	29	83	19	8	12	173
Bidston Cum Ford CP/AP	5,160	523	546	10	106	86	227	233	1,775	1,659	3,434	661	43	33	86	0	254	45	138	31	31	6	283
Heswall Cum Oldfield CP/AP	2,070	75	79	1	2	60	9	10	189	217	406	98	12	9	43	0	16	8	6	1	3	0	21
Thurstaston AP/CP	860	16	16	0	0	12	3	1	46	46	92	24	4	1	13	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	7
Upton By Birkenhead AP/CP	760	33	33	0	2	19	13	1	89	102	191	45	6	3	20	0	10	4	0	0	2	0	23
Wallasey CP/AP	3,240	410	538	33	55	171	181	186	1,372	1,365	2,737	768	27	22	184	3	240	94	172	15	11	6	222
West Kirby AP/CP	5,260	236	241	1	9	133	36	72	647	642	1,289	321	29	62	102	0	37	10	69	11	1	1	66
Woodchurch CP/AP	6,030	160	167	1	6	133	27	7	465	464	929	217	27	41	107	0	29	3	7	3	0	0	38

Comments:

1	This transcription also includes sub-parish units, but as they have not been systematically added to the auo they are not included in the material copied into the g_data table.

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Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the following contributors. If you make use of the data in your own work, please follow any instructions given here on acknowledgment and re-use.

David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.